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Consultation between Vietnam Customs and Japanese Business

11/01/2012 01:11

On 15/12/2011, General Department of Customs (GDC) organized Consultation between Vietnam Customs and Japanese Business in presence of Deputy Prime Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan, Deputy Director of General Department of Vietnam Customs Vu Ngoc Anh, Representative of JICA in Vietnam, Leaders of Units in GDC and over 30 Japanese Business.

In the Consultation, Deputy Prime MinisterDo Hoang Anh Tuan would like to listen to Japanese business who express difficulties, problems in implementation of customs regulations to apply for adjusting and supplementing related legal documents.

Mr. Nagase Toshio – Vice chief Representative of JICA in Vietnam confirmed that the Consultation is very useful to Japanese Business. Mr Toshio would like Vietnam Customs to continue organizing such Consultations to partly improve investment environment, complete legal system and promote Japanese investment in Vietnam.

Besides given questions which were written answered, Business have chance to directly exchange information with Customs for existing problems. The Consultation happened excitedly with hot questions and answers between Leaders of Minister of Finance, General Department of Vietnam and Japanese Business. Business focused on outstanding issues such as: consistent application of customs procedures for import/export by hand carry; methods against problems occurred when operating e-customs declaration; proposal of widening subjects of using e-customs procedures; consulting information must be quick, punctual, easy to understand and consistent; consistent application of HS code; guiding in detail procedures and necessary documents for business to declare, synthesis to avoiddifficulties in implementation etc…